Open-top drier



Sept. 18, 1928.

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ineen? GLAUD E. FULLER, OF NEIN YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO YORK BRICK HANDLING i i CORPORATION, OF NEW YORK, Il'. Y.,` A.'CORPORAITIOI-I OF YORK.

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'.Applicaton filed October 19, Serial No. 227,232.

My presentinvention relates to brick making machines, and more particularly toan improved drier for bricks and the like.

In my copending application,.Serial No. 227,231, filed-Oct. 19, 1 928, I have described and claimed an improved method of manufacturing brick by the soft mud process, wherein the loaded pallets are collected in groups and placed in al container and which container is placed in a drier ofthe open top variety, where the bricks yon the pallets are subjected to a preliminary drying operation prior to being built into unit stacks for forming a kiln. As in the prior art, there was no satisfactory open top drier which could be advantageously utilized in connection with my improved method, as set out inthe application above referred to, I have designed the drier forming the subject Amatter of the present invention. In this drier I have utilized to the greatest extent possible the exhaust t heat from a battery of boilers,as well as utilizing heat fromsteam generated by such boilers. By thus utilizing direct heat and the exhaust heat, I obtain the greatest vetliciency from whatever fuel is utilized under the boilers Vand reducethe cost of drying bricks to a minimum. In designing this yopen top drier, I have provided therein a plurality of parallelly arranged compartments, in each ot' which is arranged a heating coil, pref-v erably located at the bottom thereof, andV at one end of each of the parallelly arranged compartmentsl provide an air inlet which conducts the waste heat from the battery of boilers into the compartment and at the other end of thecompartment I provide an outlet for such vexhaust heat and connect the Yheated air inlet chamber with the source of exhaust heat by means of an inlet fanandn connect the heated air outlet chamber with the outer atv mosphere by means of an exhaustfan. By this means, therefore, I am enabled to create a positive flow of heated air through the compartments. VEach compartment is built of a size to readily accommodate a container such as is disclosed and claimedrin my copending application, Serial No. 22.7 ,231, filed Oct. 19,1928, and each containerhasassm ciated therewith, at its top end atop of heat -insulating material. yIherefore, as each container is placed in a compartment of the open top drier forming the'subject matter of the present invention, that portion ofthe open 'tcp drier praeticay' against exitof air, and when the compartment is filled with containers, such compartment isV practically closed andair can issue therefrom only from the air outlet leading to t-heair outlet chamber.y 7 i.

The object of my invention, therefore, is an improved open top drier.l

In the accompanying drawings illustrating a preferred embodiment of my invention,

Fig. 1 is a. planview; Fig. 2 is asectionalend line,f2-2 bof 1, and l Fig.v 3 isa sectional elevation on'the'line 3-3 of Fig. l.A i v Y Referring to the. drawings, 10 designatesa concrete base providedwith a centrally arvelevation on the ranged trough or .grooves 11 extendingV Y throughout the'leng'th thereof. Erected on and .formed integral with the base 10, `while Y spaced apart fromand parallel to each other, are side walls 12-and -13 of any suitable length,

height and thickness. Extending between the sidewalls'12and 13 parallel to and spaced apart from each other, are transverse walls 14, suchfwalls, together withthe side walls 12V andV 13, defining apluralityfof cor'npart-4 ments 15. These compartmentsV arefo'f `a Vor other suitable member 19.

Referring to-Fig. 3, it will be noted that the containers 16-are providedat the top end .with a top portion 20 which rests on the :caps

192and practically suspends the Container' 16 within its respective compartment 15.` There'f fore,a`s the top 2O maybe of suitable insulating material, it is obvious that the relatively great weightof the container, withitsfload.

of pa'llets'l,7 and 18 respectively, willA tend.

a length toV receive a plurality of containers 2 and, therefore, whenva compartment 14.V is

to make atight joint, between the top 2O and the caps y19. The' compartments Mare of 16, as willnbe seen from an inspection of Fig.

filled with containers 16, it is substantially a closed chamber except for any openings that may be purposely made therein and 4which will be hereafter described. y u

At the end of the plurality `of cnnpart ments 15 and on the concrete base 10 are arnl ne a battery af nein-a5 al, niet.

one end of an air inlet chamber 261Jr`o11mech of aside Wall 27 arranged parallel to but spaced apart from the-side wall lf2 and closedAV by a top 23, such sides and the top 28 being preferably oheat insulating,r material. At the lowelportion of the side wall l2 and connect- 'ing each compartment'l with the Aairinlet chamber 26 .is ak passage 29 andlthroughwhich heated air from tlie'inlet 'lan 23 passes from the air inlet chamber 26. `Erected` on top oi' the concrete base parallel to'but spaced apart from the'sidewall 13 is a Wall 30 and resting on top oi the Wall' 30 and connected tothe side Wall 13 a top 31, the Vside Wall 30. and

top 31 being yprefer-ably of' heat insulating t 'InateriaL The side Wall 13,7wall` 30vand top` 31 define `an. air outlet chamber 32, which is closedat one end and at tbeotherend isconnente@ te @ebenen fen 33 the@ iS driven .by belt'flpfrorn a motor 35 or from any other squitalilelsource of' power. The side Wall 13 adjacent to the under side of the top 3l is provided with e.' l'nr'elity of pneeesesl 36', which nenne@ the, in `ivduelv compartments l5 with the ,air-inlet Chamber 32 Any ein handled bythe exhaust fen 33 will be taken from the. all inlet chamber 3'2 and any air in ,the air inlet' Chamber nmst come frein the Cemf partrnents l5" through the passag'es.y 36.

Y By reference to Fig, 2therel'ore, it willbe noted that heated air intering the compari;-l mentS 15 through the passages 29 will take. a, general' merenent lengthwise and upward.. nf 'the eelnpertrnente 15 end` will heee out rbreil: h the passages.. 3G. inte the au eutlet chai-nger 32,v The battery of boilers 2l are utilized to generate Vstcail for the bl'iol'i'plant e engine 0r engines and the exhaust Stenin fleln 'auch engine' orcngincs isconducted into a Steeminlet pipe l'lyine in the trough. 11

and ,this steam pipe. 37 has Connected thereto at intervals. alongthe length thereof steam coils 38., there being onev of Suchcoils each ofthe compartments 15. Each coil 38i`s also connected to, an outlet pipe 39, leading to the` enteratmospllere or to, a condensenas may be means for connectingl each individual heatjing coil 38 to the steam pipe 37 at Will and as eeeh .Compartment 15 is.: -llledl the heet. iS'

turned into they heating` coil 38 associated with the compartment. ilsV thecontainers 16 are loaded into yaV compartment l5, and such compartment filled, heated air through the associated passage 29 isallowed vto be forced into such compartment by the V`inlet fan 23F and to be ydra-WnY 'outtherefrom through the associated passa-ge 36 into` the air outlet chamber 32 byL the exhaust fan 3'3; Simultaneously, heat is tnrned into the associated lieati'ng` coil 3 3, and',ltherefore,fit Willl be ob# vious that the brickl8containeclf on the pal'- lets lioiftl'ie plurality of containers 16 in? the particular compartment 15 is subjected to an intense drying,l operation.. Also, as the co1npartmentsl5; are relatively small,k and the holding capacity therefore relatively sn`ia ,'ll'7 they are rapidly filled and, thereoreythe (ilryi'ngoperation takes place on the brickV Within a comparatively short time aliter'such brick are molded.4 it is possible', therefore, with the present device to perform. the dry* ingl operation practically a continuous .proposition rather' thangas a batch proposi tioni such asY hadv toy be done heretofore AWf-here Y the drier was of a character to contain prac? tically a days output of the brick-making f machine. Y

I-Iaying Vtljuisy describedy my invention? what e I claimras new is: y Y Y In an open top drier ofthe kind descrr'bed,

the cnnbination 'of a base,aplurality olf'- par-"kV allelly arranged compartments formed on thetop thereof, an air inlet chamber arranged* at one end ofiea/ch ol the compartmentsand vbeine; connected to each or said compartments, an air outlet cl'iamber arranged along' the other end said compartments and being connected. to each oi' said compartments, a heating coil arranged in the bottom of' each compartment, said compartments .being adapted to be filled with a pluralityovl con-j tainers, which containers iforin a top lfor the drier. i 'Y namev to` this spe cilicatior.1.7v

, Y Y 10o In testimony whereof, vI have signed my-y 

